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Maximum entropy production and plant optimization theories [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2010 Plant ecologists have proposed a variety of optimization theories to explain the adaptive behaviour and evolution of plants from the perspective of natural selection (‘survival of the fittest’). Optimization theories identify some objective function—such as shoot or canopy photosynthesis, or growth rate—which is maximized with respect to one or more ...
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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of the asymmetric Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
Nature Communications, 2023 Most natural systems operate far from equilibrium, displaying time-asymmetric, irreversible dynamics characterized by a positive entropy production while exchanging energy and matter with the environment.
Miguel Aguilera +2 more
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Entropy, 2014 Ecosystem entropy production is predicted to increase along ecological succession and approach a state of maximum entropy production, but few studies have bridged the gap between theory and data.
Paul C. Stoy +4 more
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Entropy production in thermal phase separation: a kinetic-theory approach [PDF]
Soft Matter, 2019 Entropy production during the process of thermal phase-separation of multiphase flows is investigated by means of a discrete Boltzmann kinetic model.
Yudong Zhang +5 more
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Entropy Region and Network Information Theory [PDF]
, 2011 This dissertation takes a step toward a general framework for solving network information theory problems by studying the capacity region of networks through the entropy region.
Sormeh Shadbakht, Shadbakht, Sormeh
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 The reactor coolant pump (RCP) is the only rotating equipment in the primary circuit system of a nuclear power plant and the “heart” of the nuclear reactor.
Qiang Fu +4 more
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Stealth Entropy Production in Active Field Theories near Ising Critical Points [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2020 We address the steady-state entropy production rate (EPR) of active scalar $ϕ^4$ theories, which lack time-reversal symmetry, close to a phase-separation critical point. We consider both nonconserved (Model A) and conserved (Model B) dynamics at Gaussian level, and also address the former at leading order in $ε= 4-d$.
Caballero, Fernando, Cates, Michael E.
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Entropy production rate as a criterion for inconsistency in decision theory [PDF]
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2018 Abstract Individual and group decisions are complex, often involving choosing an apt alternative from a multitude of options. Evaluating pairwise comparisons breaks down such complex decision problems into tractable ones. Pairwise comparison matrices (PCMs) are regularly used to solve multiple-criteria decision-making problems, for ...
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Проблеми трибології, 2022 The article gives a thermodynamic substantiation of the direction of nonequilibrium processes in tribocouples of machine parts, in tribosystems, based on the principles of maximum and minimum entropy.
V.V. Aulin +3 more
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Entropy Production in Phase Field Theories [PDF]
, 2019 Allen-Cahn (Ginzburg-Landau) dynamics for scalar fields with heat conduction is treated in rigid bodies using a non-equilibrium thermodynamic framework with weakly nonlocal internal variables. The entropy production and entropy flux is calculated with the classical method of irreversible thermodynamics by separating full divergences.
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